How species richness and total abundance constrain the distribution of abundance

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1177-1185

  Locey, Kenneth J ^a   White, Ethan P ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints; Distribution of wealth; Feasible set; Hollow curve; Macroecology; MaxEnt; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931748968     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12154     Document Type: Article

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